A reckless driver rammed a police car and drove around a roundabout the wrong way in bid to shake off the cops during a high-speed chase through Lincolnshire.

Lloyd McDonald drove as fast as 80mph, turned his car lights off and ignored traffic lights as he made a desperate attempt to escape officers in an early morning pursuit on September 11, the Grimsby Telegraph reports.

The 30-year-old led police on a dangerous whistle-stop tour of the county at 3.30am and even failed to stop after a stinger device was used to puncture his tyres in Keelby, north of Caistor.

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It was his fifth offence of driving while disqualified and his fourth of dangerous driving.

The court heard that McDonald had been jailed for four months for dangerous driving in 2009, 22 months in December 2011 for the same offence, 16 months in March 2013, also for dangerous driving, and four months in March last year for driving while disqualified.

Richard Hackfath, mitigating, said that McDonald had a terrible record for driving offences but pleaded guilty.

He had been in custody for 30 weeks and three days.

McDonald was jailed for 22 months and was banned from driving for three years and seven months.